Walkout Drives Workers Back to Old Posts
Labor unrest ends as workers resume duties at former posts after leaders refuse new positions. Officials cite stability and prior contracts while unions assess next steps in ongoing payroll disputes.
24 Sep 1934
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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1934
Page
1
Labor unrest ends as workers resume duties at former posts after leaders refuse new positions. Officials cite stability and prior contracts while unions assess next steps in ongoing payroll disputes.
Labor leaders hail a milestone settlement with the Winant mediation board endorsed by President Roosevelt. A three member board will handle recognition and bargaining disputes while a wage and hours study backs any changes. Owners say gains are limited to a paid three week vacation. A new death toll rises to fourteen from Woonsocket violence.
Fair officials asked all creditors to present their bills at the fair office on the fairgrounds yesterday. The Tri-State Fair association aims to promptly pay all indebtedness to balance its books.
Dennis Smith seven year old son of A B and Mrs A B Smith of Wellington was killed by a stray bullet from a hunter's gun while playing in a ravine two miles north of Wellington. Investigators found the shooting accidental and said no charges will be filed as the hunter was at least 100 yards away. The body rests at Ellis Funeral Home pending funeral arrangements.
Weather bulletin notes showers in Panhandle towns including Amarillo Tucumcari and Plainview with clouds and colder conditions today and Tuesday. A separate report from San Francisco details an early season storm bringing snow to Montana Idaho Washington Oregon and California with 12 inch snow at Prospect Peak and snow at Donner Summit and Lake Tahoe.
State Detective Michael Fleming said Clifford Spokesfield 28 was held on a murder charge in the death of his wife Marie 26 whose headless body was found on the front of a locomotive at Back Bay Station Boston The couple had been near Green Lodge bridge where authorities say she fell or jumped Spokesfield claimed he stopped to dry wet coils in a car during a rain and heard her scream before seeing her fall The report notes the case continued on another page.
Seymour Texas reports Ruby Britain, 40, will stand trial for murder tomorrow after Horace E. Nichols, 39, Seymour businessman, was fatally shot while seated in his car with Willie Mae Couth, 19, of Portales New Mexico, on the night of August 15 near Seymour.
President Roosevelt plans a conference with Gerard Swope of General Electric to discuss the Industrial Recovery Program. Reports say Gen Hugh S Johnson may be reassigned as the NRA reshapes its leadership. The president's activities included church service and a motor tour as construction on the new office continues.
Huey Long stirs Marksville during a stumping tour for Lieut. Gov. John Bennett Fourney as a seven blast fire alarm interrupts his speech. The Marksville volunteer fire department responds quickly to the courthouse square blaze on today’s event.
Grady D. Browder 25 a bookkeeper and office manager at Cullum Motor Company died after illness in Wichita Falls. He vanished from Amarillo en route to his in laws then fell ill and died in Wichita Falls General Hospital. Funeral set for 4 PM Tuesday at N S Griggs and Sons chapel with Rev J T McClure officiating. He is survived by his widow, parents, a brother and two sisters. Browder had worked for Cullum for years and was a member of the ABC Club.
A famous flyer and his wife arrive at Winslow Port after secrecy shrouds their Los Angeles departure. The couple depart for an undisclosed eastward trip amid public curiosity and media interest.
Col and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh landed at Winslow Arizona after leaving Saugus California heading to New York to aid a grand jury investigating the Hauptmann kidnap case. They planned to spend the night in Winslow before continuing.
Twenty balloons rise from Mokopow Airfield for the Gordon Bennett cup race. French pilot George Sure and Mme Collette Weber lead, with entries from Poland United States Spain and others. The Polish Torun escapes destroyed basket. Spain may join after French objections. Nations include Germany Belgium United States France Italy Poland Switzerland and Czechoslovakia.
Two U S Navy aircraft diverted from war games to fly 100 miles from the Saratoga carrier in the Caribbean Sea to Port au Prince. They delivered serum to the daughter of Haitian engineer Charles Fequire, aiding a 13 year old girl with pneumonia. Lieutenant R W Ruble led the mission, the trip taking forty minutes.
John J. Ash, an Amarillo barber, goes on trial in 47th District Court on murder charges linked to the July killing of Frank Newton Lanning. A special venire of 75 was summoned to augment the regular panel of 48 as the case centers on a quarrel in which Lanning and Ash allegedly participated.
A tornado swept across lower California damaging several houses in La Paz reports from the city said last night.
Three heads of major anti crime agencies Col Norman Schwartzkopf J Edgar Hoover and John F O Ryan are credited with the New York arrests that may clear up the Lindbergh kidnapping Mrs Anne Lindbergh is photographed with Col A Lindbergh in Los Angeles after the sensational breakthrough in the hunt for the kidnappers of their baby.
Austin reports Governor nominee James V. Allred hopes for a cooperative legislature when the new session begins in January. While he avoids leading the speaker race, back home letters pour in supporting Rep. J. B. Ford of Mc Lennan County for speaker, though officials attribute the effort to others rather than Allred personally.
Bronx officials refine circumstantial evidence for grand jury as Col and Mrs Lindbergh may testify. Bloodstained ransom notes suggest a fight over loot. A mystery man is being sought by federal authorities as the investigation intensifies.
In Wrexham Wales officials confirm 260 miners dead after a explosion and ensuing fire at the Gresford colliery. Rescue efforts halted as new blasts endanger workers. shaft sealed. fifteen bodies recovered yesterday with no further discoveries.
Harry Kress a 42 year old broker and Harry Fisher 39 a salesman were arrested by W K Bowling agent of the U S Bureau of Investigation and held in the city jail as fugitives. Kress is wanted in El Paso Texas on an embezzlement charge and Fisher is wanted in Los Angeles in connection with an alleged bucket shop swindle.
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